Kobe

[Frederick Hurley]

On Thu, February 1, 2007 2:26 pm, Eric Albert wrote:
>
>>Does anyone know how they did in those losses to better teams?
>>Were they getting blown out regularly?  Or were they hanging with good
>>teams, and coming up just a little short?
>
> "Hanging with good teams, and coming up just a little short" means
> nothing, *nothing*, in the NBA.  I've watched almost two thousand
> pro games, and superior teams constantly let inferior teams hang
> around.  Then they beat them.
>
> The only thing that matters in an NBA game is who has more points
> at the buzzer.

With all due respect, that's a pile of crap.  If you're a young team,
that's improving, it matters a great deal whether you take top teams down
to the wire, or lose by 16.